Public safety is not political. It's basic. And right now, too many Oregonians don't feel safe in their homes, their neighborhoods, or on their streets.

Failed policies have weakened law enforcement, reduced accountability, and allowed open drug use and public disorder to become normalized. Ed Diehl will restore law and order. He will support police officers and ensure they have the tools and backing they need to protect our communities.

Homelessness must be addressed with compassion, but compassion does not mean chaos. Ed will expand access to treatment and services while ending public camping that has taken over parks, sidewalks, and neighborhoods.

Oregon spends billions on education, yet ranks near the bottom nationally in reading and math. That is unacceptable. Our children get one shot at an education. We cannot afford to keep failing them.

Ed Diehl will refocus schools on academics: reading, writing, math, science. He will empower parents with more transparency and involvement. He will demand accountability so schools are measured by results, not excuses.

Education funding must deliver real, measurable results for students. The status quo, where billions flow in and outcomes keep declining, is not acceptable. Oregon kids deserve better, and under Ed Diehl they will get it.

Oregon agriculture is one of the most productive industries in the world, but a decade of shifting rules, regulatory overreach, and ignored local expertise has driven away investment and put farmers at risk. Local farmers, ranchers, and water districts have already built the solutions to the region's toughest challenges. They need a state government that will get out of the way and back them up.

Oregon is also overdue for a real, region-by-region water strategy. The challenges in the Columbia Basin are not the challenges in the Willamette Valley or the Klamath, and one-size-fits-all rules from Salem have failed all of them.

Ed Diehl is committed to building detailed, region-specific water and agricultural policy with the people who live and work the land. The first of those, the Umatilla / Mid-Columbia pledge, is published below. More are on the way.

Trust in elections is the foundation of a self-governing state. Oregon has drifted away from the basic principle that elections must be secure, lawful, and transparent. From inaccurate voter rolls and weak maintenance standards to automatic registration errors that put non-citizens on the rolls, the weaknesses are real and Oregonians deserve to know about them.

Ed Diehl supports voter ID, proof of citizenship to register, cleaning up the rolls, ending Motor Voter, and strict limits on ballot harvesting. He also supports full public visibility into chain-of-custody, signature verification, audit findings, and enforcement, because sunlight builds trust, and sunlight builds the case for reform.

On vote-by-mail, Ed takes a practical approach. He personally values in-person voting, but he is realistic about where Oregon voters are today. The smarter path is to secure the system first, expose its flaws, and build durable reforms, rather than losing a statewide fight that hardens opposition to election integrity.

Ed Diehl believes your rights are not negotiable. Oregon's government should protect your freedoms, not chip away at them. That is a commitment he will carry into the Governor's office from day one.

He supports the Second Amendment and the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves and their families. He supports the right to life. He supports policies that defend individual liberty and limit government overreach.

Oregon has seen too many years of government expanding its reach into the lives of law-abiding citizens while failing to address real threats to public order. Ed Diehl will reverse that trend and restore a government that respects the people it serves.